RISE Dictionary

Students in blue graduation caps and gowns at a commencement ceremony.

  • 384 refers to the housing unit at the Reception and Treatment Center. This housing unit is considered “super max” supervision and is a very controlled unit.

  • a RISE program participant developing themself, others, and change

  • Business Pitch Competition

  • Community Correctional Center Lincoln (co-ed)

  • Community Correctional Center Omaha (male only)

  • current class in the facility

  • a facility with the lowest security/restriction level; starting point before an individual can obtain a job and/or seek education in the community

  • prison officials conduct counts throughout the day and night at designated times of all the incarcerated individuals in the facility

  • diagnostic and evaluation center

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion refers to organizational frameworks which seek to promote “the fair treatment and full participation of all people", particularly groups "who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination" on the basis of identity or disability

  • subjective judgment from the DOC

  • a transitional period between two different facilities/sentences

  • In the nonprofit space, “development” oftentimes means fundraising.

  • Douglas County Youth Center

  • Department of Corrections

  • Department of Justice

  • electronic monitor

  • an incarcerated and a previously incarcerated individual’s official date of getting off of parole and being out of prison

  • (she/her): NDCS Volunteer Service Manager; RISE contact at NDCS central office for volunteer clearances and event approvals taking place within all NDCS facilities first point of contact before moving up the chain of command

  • Full Time Employee

  • Family Wellness Collective

  • individual is at high risk for committing a crime

  • long-term confinement of convicted and sentenced offenders (DOJ)

  • someone confined to a Federal or State correctional institution who is charged with or convicted of any criminal offense

  • used to detain people awaiting trial or sentencing; short-term confinement

  • mandatory discharge from a locked facility; serves last day of prison sentence in a locked facility and leaving with no parole requirements

  • Director of the NDCS; oversees all Nebraska prisons

  • Juvenile Justice Center

  • tablets used in prison facilities for people to send and receive email, make people calls, download music, education resources, etc

  • individual is at low risk for committing a crime

  • require judges to impose a sentence of a term of imprisonment of at least the time specified in a statute, a requirement generally triggered by the offense of conviction and/or the defendant’s recidivism

  • Nebraska State law requires that any person who believes a child has been or is being abused or neglected make a report. The identity of the person who made the report is confidential and cannot be released. State law also requires that all reports that meet the definition of abuse and neglect are assessed

  • Motivational interviewing

  • individual is at moderate risk for committing a crime

  • Memorandum of Understanding - multiple parties indicating their intent to do work together

  • MR is an abbreviation for Misconduct Report.

    Receiving misconduct reports can restrict an incarcerated individual’s privileges, like canteen or phone use, or can result in loss of good time, which affects the length of stay in prison.

  • Nebraska Correctional Center for Women (women only) located in York

  • National Crime Information Center background check used by NDCS to approve volunteers to access facilities

  • Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility

  • Nebraska Department of Correctional Services

  • Nebraska Inmate Case Management System

    NDCS uses it for tracking inmates and their location, their assessment scores, programming completed or in progress, and pertinent case notes regarding behavior and progress towards goals

  • Nebraska State Penitentiary (male copy)

  • Omaha Correctional Center

  • the conditional release of incarcerated individuals before they complete their sentence

    Individuals on parole are supervised by a public official called a parole officer

  • someone who has graduated from the in-prison program that still lives in the facility and helps teach and facilitate the current cohort

  • used to house people who have been convicted of a crime; long term confinement

  • rather than becoming incarcerated, individuals have the chance to remain in the community while under the supervision of a probation officer

  • RISE Alumni Association

    Made up of people who have graduated from the in-prison program that are living in the community and are within good standing of reentry services (engaged and communicating with specialists)

    Participate in pro-social activities

  • RISE Business Academy

  • the tendency of a convicted individual to reoffend; a person’s relapse into criminal behavior (DOJ)

  • the 18 month process of preparing to return to society culturally, socially, and occupationally after incarceration; work with RISE’s reentry team and an individual reentry specialist

  • Oftentimes when people in nonprofits talk about needing the “resources” to develop programs and such, that means money/funds.

  • RISE Innovation Project

    Short-term (optional) staff projects to address business challenges. The RIP process happens once a year.

  • request for proposal

  • Reception and Treatment Center

  • (she/her): NDCS Deputy Director of Programs; address as Deputy Director

  • an official communication obtained between an NDCS facility and NDCS central office giving a community volunteer or RISE staff permission to attend an event/class/club meeting outside their pre-approved facility and/or job duty

  • Static Risk and Offender Needs Guide - an objective assessment used by NDCS to predict a variety of justice system and recidivism related outcomes

  • Tecumseh State Correctional Institute

  • Vocational Life Skills - grant given by NDCS to similar programs like RISE to come in and teach those skills

  • when an incarcerated individual is living in a community and doesn’t quality to work in the community yet, so they work for the community correction center

  • when someone is living in a community correctional center and they can work out in the community during the day then return to the community correctional center at night and adhere to facility rules

  • Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center